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Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... "State-owned producer Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Saudi Aramco, yesterday lowered the premium for Arab Light relative to U.S. Gulf Coast by 45 cents a barrel to the least since December". Which OPEC country would cry, "me too", me three"? Why don't they ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... tweets on why oh why Wall Street stumbled big time (well, relatively) overnight. It slipped on oil. Tweet, tweet. It's because Gulf War III, here we come... maybe. You, I and Irene know so very well what happens to the price of oil each time trouble ...

Instos bring ESG perspective to ASX companies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... environmental and social impact, which are currently more the domain of management. Easterbrook cited the example of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "When you look at it in detail, there were quite a lot of warning sign about this and they weren't picked ...

ISN and FSC form 'unprecedented' union

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
A bridge over the traditional gulf between the industry and retail superannuation sectors appears to be under construction following an announcement from the Financial Services Council (FSC) - representing retail - and the Industry Super Network (ISN) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... bargain-hunting following Monday's sharp drops and the energy sector after BP struck a deal to settle potential claims linked to the US Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares rose 81.92 points, or 1.44 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... group posted a 17 per cent jump in first-quarter net profits, although BP also upgraded the cost of last year's devastating Gulf of Mexico spill to $US41.3 billion ($A38.29 billion), compared with previous guidance of $US40.9 billion ($A37.91 billion). ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... Given the inflow of strengthening economic data over the past few months, I'm far from capitulating. But developments in the Gulf bear watching... and very closely. Buy on dips? Or sell on hops?

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... is working its magic. The recovery is getting traction and it's raising optimism. So much so that tensions in the Persian Gulf - usually and historically a trigger to hit the sell button - have been largely ignored. Not to mention, the still lingering ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... US-based businesses Cooper Cameron and FMC Technologies. This follows the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion off the Gulf of Mexico, which resulted in gallons of oil gushing into the ocean. The explosion and subsequent oil spill has been blamed on ...

Saved by BP and Goldman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... economic data at home. Oil spill plugged. BP shares surged by 7.6 per cent on The Street on reports that the test cap on the Gulf of Mexico is working - the first time that oil has stopped flowing (money haemorrhaging out of BP) in 87 days. Lawsuit settled. ...